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1. You have a grandfather clock you have inherited. It currently is not working.

Name three areas you should check to see if the mechanism is working properly?

You check that the clock is working, and your push the pendulum to start the clock and hear the distinctive tick tock as it swings back and forth. Yet when you come back a half hour later, the pendulum is not moving. What reasons could you give for this and how could you fix them?

What is Oscillation, and how can that be used to keep time?

How are a tuning fork and a quartz stone similar?

Solution

The three areas that needs to be checked to see if the clock is working properly or not are -

If the pendulum has stopped moving agai, it might be required to set the beat for it. You should start by moving the pendulum hanger in the direction where it should have ticked until you fell some resistance and then just a bit further in the direction and then try again.

Oscillation is a periodic fluctuation between two things. It follows a back and forth motion over a central neutral point. A pendulum clock keeps time according to the frequency of the pendulum\'s swing that is, the number of times it swings or oscillates per second.